History WebAnimation / RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles

* YaoiGuys: Tucker, Doc, and French-speaking Lopez in "Last Episode Ever". The former two even get married.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Red Team: Sarge - classic Choleric, Grif and Lopez - classic Phlegmatic, Simmons - Melancholic, and Donut - Sanguine
** Blue Team: Church - Choleric, Tucker - Sanguine, Tex - Melancholic (if only because she's isolated, goal-oriented and clearly wanted to be anywhere else), and Caboose - neutral Phlegmatic, despite being a complete [[TheDitz ditz]].

* FiveManBand: It could be said that Blue Team (more or less) plays it straight, while Red Team parodies it.
** Blue Team:
*** TheLeader: Church is the unofficial leader of the Blue Team since Captain Flowers died. He's certainly the most levelheaded of the group.
*** TheLancer: Tucker is more laid back than Church and considers himself a lady's man. Technically, he outranks Church but is not interested in giving orders, so he takes them instead.
*** TheSmartGuy: Doc is TheMedic and has two minds because O'Malley possessed him.
*** TheBigGuy: Caboose is freakishly strong. Tucker says it's "God's way of compensating' because of his low intelligence and loose grip on reality.
*** TheChick: Sister is the only regular female soldier and will speak at length about her numerous sexual exploits.
** Red Team:
*** TheLeader: Sarge is the undisputed leader, and even is the one to give a rousing speech at one moment.
*** TheLancer: Grif, who is always the one to complain or fire off a witty remark.
*** TheSmartGuy: Simmons, the smartest person on their team, though with poor social skills and a professional ass-kissing attitude.
*** TheBigGuy: Lopez, who is the team's mechanic and the most proficient with any weapon, except arguably Sarge with a shotgun.
*** TheChick: Donut, the effeminate AmbiguouslyGay pink-clad team member.

** Donut starts out as the OnlySaneMan to Red Team, surprisingly. He's still the NaiveNewcomer and gullible, but he's very professional and far more strait-laced and intelligent than Grif and Simmons, a far cry from the InnocentInnuendo-spewing, [[TheDitz naive-to-the-point-of-stupidity]] TheDandy he would become.

** Sarge is more of a straightforward DrillSergeantNasty, and a recurring character who is PutOnABus midway through the season.

* {{Expy}}: [[invoked]] According to WordOfGod, the dynamic between Doc and O'Malley is heavily based after the similar "relationship" between [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sméagol and Gollum]].

** Blue Team: Church and Tex - Choleric, Tucker - Sanguine, Doc - Melancholic, and Caboose - neutral Phlegmatic, despite being a complete [[TheDitz ditz]].

* HilariousOuttakes (Each season [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cm2CPYwJOk has a collection of them]])

* AndShowItToYou: A variant in Episode 10, where a man is killed with his own skull being used to beat him to death. Except the way [[OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement Tex is said to have done this (tearing out the skull of the victim)]] doesn't seem physically possible (which were essentially the victim's last words).
** HowIsThatEvenPossible: Tucker ([[StrangeMindsThinkAlike and the victim, Jimmy]])'s reaction.

* FinalDeath: [[spoiler:How Wyoming is able to be permanently killed in "Same Old, Same Old" and "Repent, the End is Near" - After Tucker stabs the "present" Wyoming and Sheila locks Gary/Gamma behind a firewall on the Pelican, the other Wyomings aren't able to have their Temporal Distortion units work and so any deaths they suffer are permanent]].

** [[invoked]] The Battle Creek Reds and Blues, who are two large, deeply idiotic, [[DoesThisRemindYouofAnything constantly respawning armies]] [[{{GIFT}} of jerks]].

--> '''Donut''': We can't! We're out of parts because we overused that joke!

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: A lot of the characters haven't really clicked yet, and a few are far different from who they would end up being.

** Donut starts out as TheOnlySaneMan to Red Team, surprisingly. He's still the NaiveNewcomer and gullible, but he's very professional and far more strait-laced and intelligent than Grif and Simmons, a far cry from the InnocentInnuendo-spewing, [[TheDitz naive-to-the-point-of-stupidity]] TheDandy he would become.

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* RealityEnsues: While storming the fortress, Tex decides to turn invisible and take out the "guards" one by one using stealth. While her camouflage prevents her from being seen, it quickly turns out that killing somebody with your own fists is not exactly quiet. Amusingly, [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy the shouting of the first victim does nothing to alert the rest]] and the plan only fails once Tucker expresses his disbelief.

** Simmons: [[DeadPersonImpersonation He stole Sarge's identity after his death and attempted to resume his life.]] [[RealityEnsues He was then discovered and court-martialed by the Red Army]], and is now currently awaiting execution in a military prison.

** [[invoked]] "[[KillEmAll Fight! Fight!]]": A [[TooSoon poorly timed comment]] from Sarge prompts a free-for-all that ends with everyone dead.

* StableTimeLoop: Episodes 50-52. [[spoiler:Subverted. In ''The Recollection'', it's revealed that the entire time loop was just a torture simulation by Gamma. The extra Churchs, however, were due to Gamma's use of the time dilation unit to keep him out of Wyoming's way.]]youc

* StableTimeLoop: Episodes 50-52. [[spoiler:Subverted. In ''The Recollection'', it's revealed that the entire time loop was just a torture simulation by Gamma. The extra Churchs, however, were due to Gamma's use of the time dilation unit to keep him out of Wyoming's way.]]

* ShoutOut: [[ReferenceOverdosed So many]] that it's probably not feasible to list all of them. [[ShoutOut/RedVsBlue There was an attempt, though]].

* DeusExitMachina: Circumstances continually keep Sheila and the Warthog from being fully operational or otherwise able to affect the conflict. Both vehicles get totaled early in Season 1; Sheila is fixed and re-totaled; the next season has a huge amount of time dedicated to the vehicles being repaired, only for Sheila to begin exhibiting more independent action. Sheila is then unable to accompany the teams on their teleports out of Blood Gulch, and has to have her personality moved out of the tank in Season 5. The Warthog stops getting this treatment after Season 2, once the conflicts scale up to the point where it can't tip the balance.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Being that the series is a {{Machinima}}, there's EndlessDaytime whenever the story's events are taking place in Blood Gulch ([[LampshadeHanging much to the confusion]] [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall of multiple characters]]). The ''only'' time we see it get darker in Blood Gulch as if the sun's about to set? When ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' is about to end [[spoiler:and the story arc ends on a SuddenDownerEnding]].

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Most of the cast.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In episode 100, the Reds decide to destroy the Pelican, but aren't sure how. Simmons points out that Andy the bomb was with Lopez in the caves, only for Sarge to realize they can ask Lopez for ideas.

-->'''Tucker''': Naw. Hollywood doesn't understand apocalypse. They think that just one thing from everyday life goes away and that changes everything. Like in ''[[Film/MadMax Road Warrior]]'' it was [[PostPeakOil gas]], and in ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' it was land.
-->'''Simmons''': What went away in ''Film/TheMatrix''?\\

-->'''Tucker''': The sword is a key? [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Just when I thought this quest couldn't get any lamer.]]

-->'''Church''': We don't know anything about [the sword], though. Maybe it runs on radiation and it's poisoning him.\\

'''Church''': Wait now, why would solar power make him sick?\\
'''Caboose''': ...Is he Republican?